Judge rules Libertarians stay off ballot

3:14 AM,
Mar. 20, 2014

Written by

Chrissie Thompson

Libertarian candidates for Ohio governor and attorney general were rightly disqualified from the ballot, a federal judge said Wednesday, upholding a ruling this month by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted.

Husted had removed gubernatorial candidate Charlie Earl and attorney general candidate Steven Linnabary from the ballot because people who gathered the 500 signatures they each needed to qualify did not identify their employers, as required by Ohio law.

That law is constitutional, Judge Michael Watson said Wednesday. A petition gatherer who testified in the case seemed willing to ...